April, 2019
RANDY MALAMUD
Department of English Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30302-3970 404-413-5805 [email protected] http://shared.cas.gsu.edu/profile/randy-malamud/
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Columbia University, 1989. Dissertation: The Language of Modernism, directors Edward Mendelson and Carolyn Heilbrun. M. Phil. Columbia University, 1987. Exam fields: Modern British literature, Shakespeare, Dante, feminist texts/theory. Language exams in French, Italian, Old English.
M. A. Columbia University, 1984.
B. A. University of Pennsylvania, 1983. Cum laude and with honors in the major.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2012-present Regents’ Professor, University System of Georgia 2000-present Professor of English, Georgia State University 1995-2000 Associate Professor of English, GSU 1989-95 Assistant Professor of English, GSU 1984-89 Preceptor, Columbia University and Barnard College
AFFILIATIONS
Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Patron, Freedom for Animals. International Faculty Affiliate, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. Advisory Board, Web of Life Foundation. Advisory Board, TRACE.
Books
1. Strange, Bright Crowds of Flowers: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion. Under contract for delivery in 2019 and publication in 2020.
2. Email. Series: Object Lessons (The hidden lives of ordinary things). New York: Bloomsbury. In production for publication in September, 2019.
3. The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist. Bristol, UK: Intellect; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Reviews: Times Higher Education, 22 November 2018. Interview: “City Lights,” Lois Reitzes, WABE, 16 April 2018. Excerpted: The Conversation, “It’s Time for a New Approach to Travel,” 22 June 2018. Syndicated in Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, New Haven Register, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Antonio Express News, Chicago Tribune, WTOP, Salon.com.
4. An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. (Series: Animal Ethics.) Reviews: Catherine Perry, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 17.2 (2013): 190-1. Brett Mills, Anthrozoos 26.3 (2013): 463-5. J. A. Mather, Choice 50.5 (January 2013), 903. Claudia Leitner, TIERethik: Zeitschrift zur Mensch-Tier-Beziehung, 2013 (6.1), 201-205. Brett Mizelle, Journal of Animal Ethics 4.2 (2014), 99-102. James Cook University Library and Computing News 4 August 2014. H. Zertuche, enculturation. Pete Porter, “A Primer on Visual Animals.” Society & Animals, 2015. Reprint (excerpt): Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 July 2012.
5. A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age (Ed. and Introduction). Oxford: Berg/Bloomsbury, 2007. Awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008. Paperback edition 2011. Reviews: Erica Fudge, “Attempting Animal Histories.” Society & Animals 19 (2011), 425- 35. Bernd Hüppauf, H-Net Reviews. April, 2008. J P. Tiefenbacher, Choice 46.4 (December 2008), 735. Robert Mitchell, Anthrozoos 22.3 (September 2009), 295-306.
6. The Waste Land and Other Poems, by T. S. Eliot (Ed. and Introduction). Barnes & Noble Classics Series. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005. Reviews: Over 600 reader reviews on goodreads, and over 100 at barnesandnoble.com.
7. Poetic Animals and Animal Souls. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Reviews: R. D. Morrison, Choice 41.2 (October 2003), 340. Society & Animals 12.3 (2004). Scott Slovic, South Atlantic Review 71.2 (Spring 2006), 152-56. Marion Copeland, H-Net, March 2004. 8. Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity. London: Macmillan. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Reviews: The Guardian 18 July 1998: “Saturday” section, 8. Pennsylvania Gazette 97.1 (September/October 1998): 56. The Source, Georgia State U., “The News on Zoos” (September 1998): 8. Creative Loafing, “This Place is a Zoo” (26 September 1998): 29-30. CNN Radio interview, “Morning Show,” 29 September 1998. “Rendezvous with a well-read rhino,” John Ryle, The Guardian 10 August 1998. “Moo!” Lingua Franca March 1999, 10- 11. Carol Adams, South Atlantic Review 64.2 (Spring 1999). Dale Goble, H-Net. Marian Scholtmeijer, Society & Animals 7.3 (October 1999), 241-43. Radio interview, WRAS (Atlanta), “The Lounge,” 14 January 2000. Marc Bekoff, Animals’ Agenda 20.1 (Jan/Feb 2000): 46-7. Animal Issues 4.1 (2000): 53-56. Interviewed in Satya 6.11 (July 2000): 14-15. BBC Wildlife 1 December 2000, 76. Ralph Acampora, Society & Animals 9.3 (2001). Radio interview, CIUT (Toronto), “Animal Voices,” 12 September 2002. Stephen Bostock, Journal of the International Association of Zoo Educators 38 (2002): 28-29. Matthew Senior, M/MLA Journal 35.1 (Spring 2002): 119-22. Release: News from the Captive Animals Protection Society, Summer 2003, 15 (includes reprint). Reprints: Chapter 5, “Spectatorship,” in The Animals Reader, eds. Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald (Oxford: Berg, 2007), 219-36. Excerpts in Animals on Show, Animals & Us SAFE Education Series, Eds. Nichola Kriek and Philip Armstrong. Christchurch, NZ, 2009. “Marianne Moore and Albrecht Dürer,” in Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah, ed. Ralph R. Acampora, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Toposophia Series), 67-82, 2010.
9. Where the Words are Valid: T. S. Eliot’s Communities of Drama. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. Reviews: South Atlantic Review 61.3 (Summer 1996): 123-27. Reference & Research Book News 10 (August 1995): 54. Broadside 23.1 (Summer 1995): 2.
10. T. S. Eliot’s Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. (Series: Modern Dramatist Research and Production Sourcebooks.) Reviews: Reference & Research Book News (August 1992): 39. J. Hafley, Choice (October 1992): 300. Reference Book Review 12 (1993). Review 16 (1994): 63-68. T. S. Eliot Society News & Notes 19 (Spring 1993): 3.
11. The Language of Modernism. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. (Series: Studies in Modern Literature, No. 108; general editor: A. Walton Litz.) Reviews: South Atlantic Review 56.1 (January 1991): 134-36. James Joyce Quarterly 28.3 (Spring 1991): 708-12. James Joyce Literary Supplement 4.2 (Fall 1990): 11. Journal of Modern Literature 17.2/3 (Fall/Winter 1990): 233. Kritikon Litterarum 17.1-4 (1990): 106- 110. Style 24.4 (Winter 1991): 564-83. Reprinted (extracts) in Texts in Their Times: Victorian and Modern, by David Kinder and Juliet Harrison. London: English and Media Centre, 2001.
Refereed essays and book chapters
1. “Al Gore, Blackfish, and Me: Eco-activist Progress and Prospects for the Future.” In Zoo Studies: A New Humanities. Eds. Tracy McDonald and Daniel Vandersommers. Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, forthcoming, 2019.
2. “The Photographer and the Zoo: A Memoir of Mediated Encounters.” In Encountering Animal Bodies. Eds. Dominik Ohrem and Matthew Calarco. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 139-51.
3. “‘Creature Comforts’: Crafting a Common Language Across the Species Divide.” In Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture. Eds. Dominik Ohrem and Roman Bartosch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 77-94.
4. “The Problem With Zoos.” In The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, ed. Linda Kalof. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017. 397-410.
5. “MIX Copenhagen at Thirty: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment.” Film Quarterly 69.3 (Spring, 2016), 84-90.
6. “Looking at Humans Looking at Animals.” In Critical Animal and Media Studies, eds. Matthew Cole, Carrie P. Freeman, and Núria Almiron, New York: Routledge, 2015. 154-68.
7. “Ominous Faultlines in a World Gone Wrong.” Film Quarterly 67.2 (Winter, 2014), 73-79.
8. “Service Animals: Serve us Animals: Serve us, Animals.” Social Alternatives 32.4 (2013), 34-40. Rpt. 2016, McGraw Hill Education.
9. “The Ethics of Zoos.” In The Global Guide to Animal Protection, ed. Andrew Linzey, foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013, 62-63.
10. “Dante as Guide to Eliot’s Competing Traditions” In T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe. Eds. Stefano Maria Casella and Paul Douglass. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2011, 123-32.
11. “Animals on Film: The Ethics of the Human Gaze.” Spring 83 (2010), 135-60. Translation: “Anamais no cinema: a ética do olhar humano.” In Pensar/Escrever O Animal. Ed. Maria Esther Maciel. Trinidade, Brazil: Editora UFSC, 2011, 359-86.
12. “Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors? A Critical Evaluation of the American Zoo and Aquarium Study.” Lori Marino, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Randy Malamud, Nathan Nobis, and Ron Broglio. Society & Animals 18.2 (2010), 126-138. Responses: “Critique of a Critique: Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors?” John H. Falk, Joe E. Heimlich, Cynthia L. Vernon, and Kerry Bronnenkant. 18.4 (2010), 415-9. “Strong Claims, Feeble Evidence: A Rejoinder to Falk et al.,” 19.3 (2011), 291-3.
13. “Eliot’s 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion.” In A Companion to T. S. Eliot, ed. David Chinitz. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009, 239-50.
14. “An Ecocritical Ethic.” In Ecoaesthetic and Ecocritical Probings. Eds. Rini Dwivedi and Anu Shukla. New Delhi: Sarup, 2009, 57-64.
15. “Americans Do Weird Things with Animals.” In Animal Encounters, Eds. Manuela Rossini and Tom Tyler. Leiden: Brill, 2009. 73-96.
16. “Famous Animals in Modern Culture” (Introduction). In A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age. Oxford: Berg, 2007. 1-26.
17. “Zoo Stories: An Unauthorised History of the Zoo.” Mouth to Mouth 1.1 (July 2001): 98-105. 18. “Eliot, Shakespeare, Dante, Water, Music.” In Time Present and Time Past: T. S. Eliot and our Turning World, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker. Institute of United States Studies/University of London series, vol. 1. London: Macmillan, 2001. 100-112.
19. “The Culture of Using Animals in Literature and the Case of José Emilio Pacheco.” Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal 2.2 (June 2000).
20. “‛What the heart is’: Interstices of Joyce’s Poetry and Fiction.” South Atlantic Review 64.1 (Winter 1999): 91-101.
21. “Poetic Animals and Animal Souls.” Society & Animals 6.3 (October 1998): 263-77.
22. “Durkheimian Sensibilities in Joyce: Anomie and the Social Suicide.” In Images of Joyce, ed. Clive Hart, C. George Sandulescu, Bonnie K. Scott and Fritz Senn. (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1998). Vol. 1: 127-37.
23. “Prostituting Language: ‛Silent Means Consent.’” In Images of Joyce, ed. Clive Hart, C. George Sandulescu, Bonnie K. Scott and Fritz Senn. (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1998). Vol. 2: 567-71.
24. “E. L. Doctorow,” in American Writers Supplement IV. Eds. A. Walton Litz and Molly Weigel. New York: Scribner’s, 1996, 217-40.
25. “T. S. Eliot,” in British Playwrights, 1880-1956: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Eds. William Demastes and Katherine Kelly. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996, 105-16.
26. “Modern British and Irish Literature” in The Reader’s Advisor, 14th edition, vol. 1. Eds. David Scott Kasten and Emory Elliott. New Providence, NJ: Bowker, 1994, 412-572.
27. “‘Even the Walls Can Write’: An Anecdotal Fragment of Family Heritage.” Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review 15.1 (1993): 5-10.
28. “Alan Paton,” in British Writers Supplement II. Ed. George Stade. New York: Scribner’s, 1992, 341-61.
29. “Truman Capote,” in American Writers Supplement III. Eds. Lea Baechler and A. Walton Litz. New York: Scribner’s, 1991, 111-33.
30. “Splitting the Husks: Woolf’s Modernist Language in Night and Day,” South Central Review 6.1 (Spring 1989): 32-45. Reprinted in Virginia Woolf: Critical Assessments, vol. 3. Ed. Eleanor McNees (E. Sussex: Helm, 1994): 159-73.
31. “Frankenstein’s Monster: The Gothic Voice in The Waste Land,” English Language Notes 26.1 (September 1988): 41-45.
32. “Richard Brautigan,” in The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature, Ed. Jack Salzman, 1986.
Public scholarship
1. “In Stockholm, Bergman is (literally) on the money.” Senses of Cinema 89 (December 2018).
2. “It’s Time for a New Approach to Travel.” The Conversation, 22 June 2018.
3. “Confronting Austrian History at the Diagonale: Making Up for Lost Time.” Senses of Cinema 87, June 2018.
4. “Northern Lights: The 14th Reykjavík International Film Festival.” Film International, October 2017.
5. “Dazzling, evocative nature in BigPicture show.” San Francisco Examiner, 3 August 2017, 18.
6. “Ticket.” Medium.com, 28 June 2017. Reprinted Huffington Post.
7. “A Scholar in Svalbard.” Times Higher Education 6 April 2017.
8. “The Repository of Depravity: Dismembered Animals Line the Shelves of a Federal Warehouse.” Truthout.org. 27 December 2016.
9. “Should Animal Testing Be Banned?” Wallethub.com, 27 October 2016.
10. “One big yawn? The academics bewitched by boredom.” Times Higher Education 14 July 2016.
11. “Smart country, foolish choice: The U.K.’s Brextremely stupid move.” Salon.com 26 June 2016.
12. “Field Notes from a New Terminal.” Airplane Reading, eds. Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich. Alresford, Hampshire: Zero Books, 2016, pp. 189-93.
13. “The secret meanings of ‘Trump’: Why it’s time to give Donald the ‘Rick Santorum’ treatment.” Salon.com 23 January 2016.
14. Matrix Botanica: Non-Human Persons. Collaborative dialogue and art text curated by Melanie Bonajo. New York: Capricious Publishing, 2015.
15. “Did I Read That?” Chronicle of Higher Education 15 November 2015.
16. “The destructive lie of American zoos: How we’ve blinded ourselves to the truths of the natural world.” Salon.com 18 August 2015. Portuguese reprint, projetogap.org.
17. “While Fighting the Confederate Flag, Let's Not Forget About Guns.” Huffington Post, 9 July 2015.
18. “If We Are What We Eat, Then We Are Becoming Coffee Cups.” Huffington Post, 27 February 2015.
19. “Do Zoos Violate Animal Rights?” ABC-CLIO Issues Online. 2015.
20. “Corrections of Reality: A Week at Cottbus.” The Point. December 2014.
21. “It’s the End of the World as We Know It.” Huffington Post, 8 December 2014.
22. “Out of the Blue.” Huffington Post, 15 October 2014.
23. “The problem with ‘Ebola’: The troubling, xenophobic language of disease.” Salon.com, 28 September 2014.
24. “Once more unto the breach.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed, 13 September 2014.
25. “Ice Buckets for English?” Inside Higher Education 5 September 2014.
26. “The lost art of passwords: What we lost when hackers conquered the Internet.” Salon.com, 9 August 2014. Reprinted as “Hackers Ruined the Art of Passwords,” Chicago Sun-Times op-ed page, 13 August 2014. Reprinted in Student’s Book of College English, ed. David Skwire, London: Longman, 2014. Guest on NPR’s “Colin McEnroe Show,” 13 August 2014: “Ugh! I Can't Remember My Password!”
27. “Beyond the ‘Redskins’: Lions and Tigers and Bears.” Medium.com, 1 August 2014. Reprinted on Buzzfeed.com, Opednews.com.
28. “Comprehending the Crash.” Huffington Post, 23 July 2014.
29. “Law sees meaner demeanor.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed, 2 May 2014.
30. “Please Don’t Read the Animals: An Interview with Dr. Randy Malamud.” The Chattahoochee Review, 33.2-3 (Fall 2013/Winter 2014), 95-111.
31. “The New Psychogeography of Tempelhof Airport, Once a Nazi Landmark.” The Atlantic 23 December 2013. Reprinted on Tempelhof Field website.
32. “The Future of Literature.” Huffington Post, 11 November 2013.
33. “A Tale of a Whale.” Truthout.org 28 September 2013.
34. “Surveillance at the Aquarium.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project. 19 August 2013.
35. “The Subversive Summit: In Europe, austerity’s failures open radical opportunities.” In These Times August 2013, 24-27.
36. “My Obligation to Iraqi Academe.” Chronicle of Higher Education 15 March 2013.
37. “The Hazards of Inaugural Poetry.” Chronicle of Higher Education 22 January 2013.
38. “Midnight’s Children Flourishes on Screen.” Chronicle of Higher Education 12 October 2012.
39. “Vengeful Tiger, Glowing Rabbit.” Chronicle of Higher Education 23 July 2012.
40. “Sex 2.0.” Chronicle of Higher Education 25 June 2012. Featured interview on BBC “World Today”:
41. “Not Your Dad’s Science Films.” Chronicle of Higher Education 19 February 2012. (With Daniel Malamud)
42. “Rising Above a Fear of Flying.” Chronicle of Higher Education 9 December 2011, B20.
43. “Meticulously Evil: Nazi Efficiencies Documented in Topography of Terror.” Chronicle of Higher Education 22 April 2011, B11-14.
44. “In Dubai, A Cinematic Door to the Mideast. Chronicle of Higher Education 27 February 2011.
45. “Monty Python’s Academic Circus.” Chronicle of Higher Education 4 February 2011. Ukranian translation.
46. “Q & A With Photographer Ben Gest.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 November 2010, “Arts & Academe.”
47. “The Return of the Blob.” Truthout.org 21 July 2010.
48. “Eadward Muybridge, Thief of Animal Souls.” Chronicle of Higher Education 2 July 2010, B11-14. Rpt. in Stephen Herbert, Eadweard Muybridge: MuyBlog Selection 2009-2012. Hastings, UK: CreateSpace, 2014, 70-73.
49. “Walt Disney, Reanimated.” Chronicle of Higher Education 26 March 2010, B12-15.
50. “Looking at Animals.” Island 117 (Winter 2009), 17-24.
51. Interview, Release, Summer 2009, 4-5.
52. “‘You’ve Read the Book, Now Take a Look!’: Literary tourism and the quest for authenticity.” Chronicle of Higher Education 15 May 2009, B12-14. Reprinted: History News Network.
53. “The Captivity Industry: The Reality of Zoos and Aquariums” (with Lori Marino and Gay Bradshaw). Best Friends Magazine, March/April 2009, 24-7.
54. “Walking Forward in a Poet’s Light.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 February 2009, B8-9.
55. “A Sustaining Environment for Environmental Art.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 November 2008, B22-24.
56. “Life as We Know It: Does classifying nature heighten, or substitute for, our appreciation of it?” Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 July 2008, B7-9.
57. “A New Breed of Environmental Film.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 April 2008, B19-21.
58. “Animated Animal Discourse.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 October 2007.
59. “What People are Not.” Animality, December 2004.
60. “How People and Animals Coexist.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 24 January 2003, B7-9.
61. Forum, South Atlantic Review 66.4 (Fall 2001): 149-52. “After September 11: Reflections and Responses.”
62. “In This Year’s Fashion Jungle, Beastly Patterns are the Sincerest Form of Fakery.” Chronicle of Higher Education 1 December 2000: B4.
63. “Cultural Studies as a Method for Elucidating the Human-Animal Relationship in Zoos.” International Society for Anthrozoology Newsletter, 19 (July 2000): 9-13.
64. Interview in Satya 6.11 (July 2000): 14-15.
65. “Shantih Shantih Shantih.” Journal of Irreproducible Results 45.1 (2000): 24-5.
66. “Reflections on Gutenberg.” Journal of Irreproducible Results 44.1 (Jan./Feb. 1999): 31.
67. “Teaching Freshmen: a Rite of Passage in Academe,” Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 6, 1985, 104.
Forewords
1. Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Eds. Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013, ix-xiii. Reviews: M. Barrow in Environmental History 19.2 (February 2014). Lisa Moore in Science as Culture 23 (2014).
2. Ecocritical Theology: Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present. Joan Anderson Ashford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012, 11-13.
Book Reviews
1. Hopdance, by Stewart Parker. Times Higher Education, 6 February 2019.
2. Burger, by Carol J. Adams. Times Higher Education, 17 May 2018.
3. The Theater of D. H. Lawrence: Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Inventor, by James Moran. Common Knowledge 24.3 (August 2018). 435.
4. Wattana: An Orangutan in Paris, by Chris Herzfeld. Common Knowledge 24.1 (2018), 163.
5. “Toothy grins mask many sins.” American Niceness, by Carrie Tirado Bramen. Times Higher Education, 17 August 2017.
6. Airportness, by Christopher Schaberg. Times Higher Education, 21 September 2017.
7. What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret. Common Knowledge 23.3 (2017), 549-50.
8. Wild Life: The Institution of Nature, by Iris Braverman. Common Knowledge 23.1 (2017), 112-113.
9. Righting America at the Creation Museum, by Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger Jr. Times Higher Education, 21 July 2016.
10. The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo, by Ian Jared Miller. Common Knowledge 22.1 (January 2016), 134.
11. American Zoo: A Sociological Safari, by David Grazian. Times Higher Education, 3 September 2015.
12. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot, by Mark Vanhoenacker, and Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings, by Owen Hatherley. Times Higher Education, 24 December 2015.
13. What Animals Teach Us about Politics, by Brian Massumi. Common Knowledge 21.3 (August 2015), 522.
14. The Ethics of Captivity, Ed. Lori Gruen. Journal of Animal Ethics 5.2 (Fall 2015), 219-22.
15. “Coetzee and Animals, Literature and Philosophy.” Rev. of J. M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature. Ed. Anton Leist and Peter Singer. Journal of Animal Ethics 2.2 (Fall 2012), 212-15.
16. “The Culture and Ethics of Carnivory.” Rev. of Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer. Society & Animals 19.2 (2011), 198-9.
17. Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human, by Kelly Oliver. Journal of Animal Ethics 1.2 (2011), 226-7.
18. “The Wolf at the Door.” Rev. of Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, by S. K. Robisch. Society & Animals 18.4 (2010), 426-27.
19. “Revisiting the Question: Why Look at Animals?” Rev. of The Animal Gaze: Animal Subjectivities in Southern African Narratives, by Wendy Woodward. Society & Animals 18.2 (2010), 226-27.
20. When Species Meet, by Donna Haraway. Anthrozoös 21.2 (2008): 405-7.
21. Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution. Ed. Saleem H. Ali. Common Knowledge 14.3 (Fall 2008), 495-96.
22. Ant, by Charlotte Sleigh, Oyster, by Rebecca Stott, and Crow, by Boria Sax. parallax 12.1 (2006), 139-41.
23. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. Ed. Cary Wolfe. South Atlantic Review 69.1 (Winter 2004), 120-24.
24. Wild Things, by Britta Jaschinski. South Atlantic Review 68.4 (Fall 2003), 113-16.
25. Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture, by Erica Fudge. Society & Animals 11.1 (2003): 111-13.
26. Car Crash Culture, ed. Mikita Brottman. South Atlantic Review 67.2 (Spring 2002): 92-95.
27. Rings of Desire: Circus History and Representation, by Helen Stoddart. South Atlantic Review 66.3 (Summer 2001): 131-34.
28. The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920, by Mark Morrisson. South Atlantic Review 66.2 (Spring 2001): 191-93.
29. Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture, by Jeffrey S. Miller. South Atlantic Review 65.4 (Fall 2000): 222-25.
30. Dennis Potter: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter. South Atlantic Review 65.2 (Spring 2000): 195-99.
31. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ed. Michael Levenson. South Atlantic Review 64.3 (Summer 1999): 127-31.
32. T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, by Anthony Julius. Review essay, ANQ 11.3 (Summer 1998): 51-56.
33. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows: Animal Tales and American Identities, ed. A. James Arnold. South Atlantic Review 62.3 (Summer 1997): 123-26.
34. Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism, by Jewel Spears Brooker. Journal of Modern Literature 20.3/4 (Spring 1997): 372-73.
35. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change, by Stanley Fish. South Atlantic Review 61.3 (Summer 1996): 143-46.
36. Virginia Woolf Against Empire, by Kathy J. Phillips. South Atlantic Review 60.3 (September 1995): 140-42.
37. Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation, ed. George Bornstein. Review essay, Modern Language Studies 23.2 (Spring 1993): 102-10.
38. Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism, by Marianne DeKoven. South Atlantic Review 57.4 (November 1992): 112-14.
39. Covert Relations: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James, by Daniel Mark Fogel. South Atlantic Review 57.1 (January 1992): 127-29.
Collaborations with Britta Jaschinski
1. “The Photographer and the Zoo: A Memoir of Mediated Encounters.” In Encountering Animal Bodies. Eds. Dominik Ohrem and Matthew Calarco. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 139-51.
2. “Dazzling, evocative nature in BigPicture show.” San Francisco Examiner, 3 August 2017, p. 18.
3. “The Repository of Depravity: Dismembered Animals Line the Shelves of a Federal Warehouse.” Truthout.org. 27 December 2016. Text accompanying photographs.
4. London Column. December 2011. Five installments; text accompanying photographs.
5. “Ghosts.” Text accompanying photographs.
6. “Looking at Animals.” Island 117 (Winter 2009), 17-24.
7. Five Points 12.1 (2008), 73-83. “Dark.” Text accompanying photographs.
8. “Prologue: Animals.” The Animals Reader. Eds. Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald. Oxford: Berg, 2007, ix-xi. Introductory text accompanying photographs.
9. “Wild Things: Teaching us to see ‘invisible’ animals.” Release, Summer 2004, cover and 10-11. Text accompanying photographs.
10. Five Points 8.3 (2004), 72-80. Text accompanying photographs.
11. Exhibition text, Britta Jaschinski’s “Verehte Tiere—Ein Plädoyer für die Schöpfung” (“Dear Animals: An Argument for the Creation”). 2003, Stadtmuseum, Schleswig, Germany.
12. Review of Wild Things, by Britta Jaschinski. South Atlantic Review 68.4 (Fall 2003), 113-16.
13. “Spotlight: Britta Jaschinski.” Biographical and professional overview, with photographs. B&W 20 (August 2002): 98-101.
14. “Zoo Stories: An Unauthorised History of the Zoo.” Mouth to Mouth 1.1 (July 2001): 98-105.
15. Cover photographs, Introduction to Animals in Visual Culture, A Cultural History of Animals, Poetic Animals and Animal Souls, and Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity.
Selected Presentations
“How We View Other Animals.” “I Am Not an Animal” symposium, Emory U., February 2017. http://www.earthintransition.org/2017/04/how-we-view-other-animals/
“Al Gore, Blackfish, and me: eco-activist progress and prospects for the future.” “Zoo Studies.” McMaster U., December 2016.
“Best Practices in Research.” IREX Iraq University Linkage Program. University of Dohuk and University of Baghdad, Iraq, December 2012.
“Service animals; serve us animals; serve us, animals.” Maryland Institute College of Art, Critical Studies Graduate Colloquium Keynote: “Human / Animal.” Baltimore, November 2012.
“Transgressing the Limits of the Human: The Meanings of Animal Pornography.” Keynote address, Animality and the Limits of the Human. Federal U. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, May 2011.
“Against Zoos: In Words and Images.” Stanford U., Environmental Humanities symposium, Program in Modern Thought and Literature. December 2009.
“The literary tourist.” Lecture at Flannery O’Connor Birth Home, Savannah, GA, November 2009.
“Why look at animals in visual media? Aesthetics and ethics of the human gaze.” Invited plenary speaker. Minding Animals, Newcastle, Australia, July 2009. “Dante as Guide to Eliot’s Competing Traditions.” T.S. Eliot, Dante, and the European Tradition: An International Symposium, Florence, January, 2008.
“Happy endings: An unexpected respite from reality in the contemporary narrative of apocalyptic awareness.” Millennial Fictions, Brunel U., London, July, 2007.
“Famous animals in the 20th century.” Close Encounters: Conference of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts, U. of Amsterdam, June, 2006.
“Americans do weird things with animals.” Invited keynote lecture for series entitled “Posthumanism & American Culture.” Rothermere American Institute, Oxford U., May, 2005.
“Regional MLAs: Unique identities, common concerns.” Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December, 2001.
“After September 11: Reflections and responses.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November, 2001.
“‛It’s all happening at the zoo’: Distortions and decontextualizations of nature.” Presenting the Environment: Film, T.V. and Popular Culture. Modern Language Association, Washington, December, 2000.
“Tropes of mastery and parity in modern animal poetry.” Centering Animals: Advocacy Methodologies for the Study of Animals in Literature. Modern Language Association, Washington, December, 2000.
“Encounters in unnatural places: The cultural dangers of zoos.” Environmental Studies Discussion Group panel, “Cultures of Nature,” at Society for Literature and Science, Atlanta, October, 2000.
“Ways of knowing (and not knowing) animals: An ecocritical ethics of reading.” Conference on Animals in History and Culture, Bath Spa U., July 1999.
Invited Panelist, “Is there a future for zoos?” Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Fourth Annual Conference on Animals and the Law, New York, NY, 1998.
“Zoo stories: Representations of animals and captivity.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Missoula, MT, July, 1997.
“The heart of the matter: ‛Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else.’” Thirteenth International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, June, 1992.
“The still point: ‛A photograph that they have often looked upon.’” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, U. of Louisville, February, 1991.
“Joyce’s Suicide: Durkheimian sensibilities in Dubliners.” Twelfth International James Joyce Symposium, Monaco, June, 1990.
“Prostituting language: Silent means consent.” Twelfth International James Joyce Symposium, Monaco, June, 1990.
EDITORIAL
Editor, A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age. Editor, T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems. Associate Editor, South Atlantic Review: 1995-2013. Board of Editors, Society & Animals: 2000-present. Board of Editors, Human-Animal Studies Book Series, Brill: 2004-present. Consultant Editor (= Board of Editors), Journal of Animal Ethics, 2010-present. Guest Editor, Studies in the Literary Imagination 25.2 (Fall 1992). “Defining Modernism.” Manuscript reviewer: Society & Animals, ISLE, Journal of Animal Ethics, Anthrozoos, Mosaic, Oxford UP, Continuum, Brill, Routledge, Cambridge UP, South Atlantic Review, LIT, Rowman & Littlefield.
COURSES TAUGHT
Modern poetry, Modern novel, English literature 1900-45, English literature 1945- present, Virginia Woolf, Ecocriticism, Public Scholarship, Editing, Introduction to Literature.
SERVICE
Chair, Department of English, 2012-15. Associate Chair, 2002-12. Acting Chair, 2004-05. Vice-Chair of the Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences, 2001-04, 2010-12. Executive Director, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2001-02.
Other activities include: Chair, Dean’s Evaluative Committee (1995); Secretary, College Executive Committee (1993-95, 1998-2001); departmental Executive Committee (1991- 93, 1994-95, 1999-2002); University Senate (1994-95, 1996-97); Senate Academic Program Review Committee (1995-97); Provost’s Strategic Initiative Academic Advisory Group (1995-96); Chair, Departmental ad hoc Promotion and Tenure Manual Revision Committee (1999, 2002); Chair, Departmental Promotion and Tenure Subcommittee (2000, 2002, 2003, 2009); Chair, Scheduling Committee (2002-12); Chair, Research Enhancement Committee (2002-12); Chair, University Internal Grant Peer Review Committee (2006-09). Provost’s Evaluative Committee (2006). President’s Evaluative Committee (2010). GSU Doctoral Commencement Speaker, 2011. University P&T advisory panel, 2016-18. College of Arts & Sciences Strategic Planning working group, 2017.
AWARDS
GSU College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 2017. GSU Sparks Award for Meritorious Service, 1997.
DIRECTION OF STUDENTS
“Disconnectedness and Unity”: Self-Consciousness and the Tensions of Duality in Thom Gunn’s Poetry. Elisabeth M. Stettler, B.A. Honors Thesis, 1992 H.D.’s Trilogy and the Politics of Fertility. Lara Vetter, M.A., 1994. The Classics in Transliteration: Pound’s Use of Greek in Thrones. Ann Michelle Lewis, M.A., 1995. “Memory, the Mother of All Nine Muses”: Remembrance of Childhood in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction. Janice Elizabeth Rieman, Ph.D., 1997. T. S. Eliot’s Religious Conversion. Kristin G. Kelly, Ph.D., 1998. Uncertainty and Meaning: Postmodern British Fiction and Pragmatic Pluralism. Cynthia Deniston Snider, Ph.D., 2000. Evading the Damned Egotistical Self: A Study of Autobiography in To the Lighthouse and The Waves. Cindy Ash, M.A., 2002. Tradition and Modernity in Philip Larkin’s Poetry. Brian Allen East, M.A., 2004. Modern Art/Modern Literature: Projecting a World. Virginia Woolf and Literary Post- Impressionism. Stephanie Helms, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2006 Elephants. Stephan McCormick, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2006. Ecocriticism and Modern Literature. Yang Mi, Postdoctoral student, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 2007-08. The Power of Timelessness and the Contemporary Influence of Modern Thought. Katie Reece Moss, Ph.D., 2008. Thinking Back Through Our Fathers: Woolf Reading Shakespeare in Orlando and A Room of One’s Own. Maureen Gallagher, M.A., 2008. A Critic in Her Own Right: Taking Virginia Woolf’s Literary Criticism Seriously. Yvonne Nicole Richter, M.A., 2009. Ecocritical Theology: Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present. Joan Ashford Anderson, Ph.D., 2009. Published by McFarland Press. Modernist Aesthetics of “Home” in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier. James Harper Strom, M.A., 2009. Ford Madox Ford’s Good Soldier in a Modern World. Constance Hinds, M.A., 2010. Speaking Voices in Postcolonial Indian Novels from Orientalism to Outsourcing. Barbara Gardner, Ph.D., 2011. Place, Race, and Modernism in the Works of E.M. Forster and Eudora Welty. Marny Borchardt, Ph.D., 2013. Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier and Parade's End. Dianne Berger, M.A., 2016. Laughing Them Into Religion: A Comparison of the Contexts, Causes, and Effects of Swift’s A Tale of a Tub and Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. Alan Neely, M.A., 2016. British Women’s Literature as a Conduit for Reconsidering the Human-Nature Relationship. Jennifer Castle, Ph.D., in progress. Seepage: Preservation and Development in Global Literary Environmentality. Christine Anlicker, Ph.D., in progress. Marinetti and Italian Futurism. Carl Sweat, M.A., 2018 Recognizing the War-torn Wives of West’s Return of the Soldier and Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Nicole Turner, M.A., 2018. Eco-Traffic: Globalization, Materiality, and Subalternity in Asia-Pacific Literature. David St. John, Ph.D., in progress. Disambiguating Dystopia: Readjusting the Critical Lens on Twentieth-Century Dystopian Literature. Shana Latimer, Ph.D., in progress.